00:03You've no doubt seen a human skull at some point, and probably one belonging to our hominin cousins, Neanderthals.
00:10However, another species of ancient human is said to have been discovered in East Asia,
00:15one that lived concurrently with other Homo sapiens more than 100,000 years ago.
00:20They've been named the Geleuron species by paleoanthropologists, a word which means large-head people.
00:25These are a collection of skull fragments attributed to the recently described species.
00:29One's researchers say cannot be attributed to humans, Neanderthals, or Denisovans.
00:34However, the experts say that the features present are somewhat of a mix of traits seen amongst other species.
00:40That's likely because multiple groups of differing hominin peoples lived in the same area,
00:45meaning this species could have been an ancestor of myriad others.
00:48With the researchers writing about it, it is becoming increasingly clear that in the Eastern Asian hominin fossils,
00:54a greater degree of morphological variation is present than originally assumed or anticipated.
00:59This is just the latest in a recent boom of discoveries related to new human species,
01:04with experts saying they are revealing just how much more complex human evolution really is.
